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The Nielsen Company says an estimated 24.6 million people watched coverage of President Donald Trump's second inauguration.
Many Republicans on Capitol Hill do not agree with President Donald Trump’s decision to pardon and commute sentences for more than 1,500 people charged with crimes related to the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol.
The Justice Department has reassigned key senior officials across multiple divisions as part of a leadership shakeup ahead of the expected confirmation of President Donald Trump’s pick for attorney general, Pam Bondi.
At the inaugural prayer service, the Right Rev. Mariann Budde, the Episcopal bishop of Washington, asked President Donald Trump to have mercy on the LGBTQ+ community and undocumented migrant workers.
Some Facebook and Instagram users were surprised to find themselves automatically following the accounts of President Donald Trump or Vice President JD Vance this week after the president was inaugurated.
President Donald Trump has defended his decision to pardon people convicted of assaulting police officers during the attack on the Capitol and suggests there could be a place in U.S. politics for the Proud Boys extremist group, quickly evoking some of the controversies of his first term.
The Supreme Court has turned back an election law case out of Montana that relied on a controversial legal theory with the potential to change the way elections are run across the country.
The crowded scene in the Capitol Rotunda on Inauguration Day featured four of the world’s five wealthiest men, five U.S. presidents, influential sporting figures and two other foreign leaders with prime seats on the dais.
The Senate has passed a bill that would require federal authorities to detain migrants accused of theft and violent crimes.
Vivek Ramaswamy is no longer part of the government efficiency commission that President Donald Trump selected him to lead alongside billionaire Elon Musk.
President Donald Trump has named an acting defense secretary because his choice to lead the Pentagon, Pete Hegseth, has not yet been confirmed by the Senate.
Some of the most exclusive seats at President Donald Trump’s inauguration were reserved for powerful tech CEOs who also are among the world’s richest men.
It was a changed Washington that greeted Donald Trump when he took the oath of office as president a second time.
President-elect Donald Trump has selected opera tenor Christopher Macchio to perform the national anthem at his second inauguration.
Donald Trump is returning to the White House ready to immediately overhaul the government using executive orders.
It's a rough time for legacy news outlets as Donald Trump prepares to take the presidential oath for a second term.
At halftime of its game against Purdue on Saturday, Washington sent its first women’s jersey to the rafters, retiring the No. 10 that Kelsey Plum wore for four years as she rewrote the school — and NCAA — record books.
Dozens of South Florida law enforcement officers are on their way to Washington, D.C., to assist with security efforts during Monday’s presidential inauguration.
Thousands of people from around the United States rallied in the nation’s capital for women’s reproductive rights and other causes they believe are under threat from the incoming Trump administration.
Donald Trump spent Saturday evening in Washington celebrating with family, supporters and political allies ahead of his second inauguration.
A rare wave of U.S.-China camaraderie broke out online in recent days as “refugees” from the popular short video platform TikTok poured onto a Chinese social media platform to protest a now-delayed ban on the service.
The Supreme Court has agreed to hear an appeal from parents in suburban Washington who want to pull their children from elementary school classes that use books featuring LGBTQ characters.
The Federal Reserve said Friday that it is leaving an international grouping of central banks that focused on how the financial system could help combat climate change.
IRS Commissioner Daniel Werfel says he intends to step down from his position on President-elect Donald Trump’s Inauguration Day.
The national debt is slated to rise by $23.9 trillion over the next decade, a sum that does not include trillions of dollars in additional tax cuts being championed by President-elect Donald Trump.
TikTok says it will have to “go dark” this weekend unless the outgoing Biden administration assures the company it won’t enforce a shutdown of the popular app after the Supreme Court unanimously upheld the federal law banning the app unless it’s sold by its China-based parent company.
The International Monetary Fund expects the world economy to grow a little faster and inflation to keep falling this year.
More than a dozen Democratic state attorneys general said Thursday they plan to defend two gun regulations now being challenged in court, including one banning devices that enable semiautomatic guns to fire more quickly.
Secretary of State Antony Blinken has defended Biden administration policies on Israel's war with Hamas after a ceasefire agreement in Gaza was reached.
President Joe Biden in his Wednesday farewell speech to the nation warned that American democracy was sliding into an “oligarchy” of tech billionaires.
The world economy is growing steadily in the face of global conflict, protectionist trade policies and high interest rates.
An executive order issued by President Joe Biden just days before he leaves office aims to shore up America's cyber defenses while making it easier to go after foreign countries that launch cyberattacks.
House Speaker Mike Johnson is removing the GOP chairman of the powerful House Intelligence Committee, who was a vocal supporter of assistance for Ukraine and held other views that put him at odds with President-elect Donald Trump.
Senior officials from President-elect Donald Trump’s administration have participated in a transition exercise hosted by President Joe Biden's team on responding to potential terror attacks and avian flu, among other challenges.
President-elect Donald Trump’s nominee for White House budget director is declining to commit to doling out congressionally approved funds, specifically U.S. military aid to Ukraine.
More than 260,000 former students of the now-defunct for-profit Ashford University are getting their student loans erased as the Biden administration presses ahead with debt forgiveness in its final days.
Ever since the U.S. Social Security Administration opened its books to the Department of the Treasury’s Bureau of Fiscal Service, it has been able to stop and recover more than $31 million in improper federal payments to dead people.
The U.S. Treasury Department says it’s expanding the web of sanctions on companies and institutions supporting Russia’s war efforts in Ukraine.
The Supreme Court seems open to a Texas law aimed at blocking kids from seeing online pornography.
U.S. officials have announced the latest border data, and it suggests the Biden administration is poised to end its term without an expected bump in illegal border crossings.
President Joe Biden has announced the creation of two California national monuments that will honor Native American tribes while shielding picturesque mountains and deserts from mining and energy development.
The Biden administration is seeking to shore up ties with countries in the Indo-Pacific in its waning days in office by sending to Congress three key agreements that would cement relations with critical allies and partners in the region, which is increasingly dominated by China.
A sweeping 2022 law, touted by President Joe Biden as a way to revive U.S. semiconductor manufacturing and reduce reliance on foreign-made computer chips, will “sharply increase production’’ of semiconductors in the United States.
President-elect Donald Trump says he plans to create a new agency called the External Revenue Service to collect tariffs and other revenues from foreign nations.
The tax deadline for some small businesses affected by severe weather in 2024 is drawing near, the IRS is reminding owners.
Secretary of State Antony Blinken has made a last-minute case for a plan for the post-war reconstruction and governance of Gaza as a ceasefire between Israel and Hamas appears tantalizingly close to completion.
The World Economic Forum’s president says U.S. President Donald Trump will take part virtually in the annual meeting in Davos just days after his inauguration.
The Supreme Court has upheld a North Dakota state House district on an American Indian reservation, rejecting a challenge by local Republican officials.
The Supreme Court is turning back a push by the state of Utah to wrest control of vast areas of public land from the federal government.
Vice President-elect JD Vance says people responsible for the violence during the Capitol riot “obviously” should not be pardoned.
Special counsel Jack Smith has resigned from the Justice Department after submitting his investigative report on President-elect Donald Trump.
A retired Navy intelligence officer has avoided additional prison time after he was cleared of the most serious charges in his U.S. Capitol attack trial alongside Oath Keepers founder Stewart Rhodes.
The Supreme Court agreed Friday to consider some reinstating preventative care coverage requirements under the Affordable Care Act that were struck down by a lower court.
A U.S. intelligence report finds no evidence linking a foreign power to the mysterious “Havana syndrome” injuries experienced by U.S. personnel.
President Joe Biden's administration says it's expanding sanctions against Russia's critically important energy sector over its war in Ukraine.
The White House says President Joe Biden will deliver a capstone address to highlight some of his administration's most significant foreign policy achievements.
A federal appeals court has denied a bid to block the public release of special counsel Jack Smith’s report on President-elect Donald Trump’s efforts to overturn his 2020 election loss.
Newly in the minority, Democrats voted with Republicans on Thursday to advance legislation that would require federal authorities to detain unauthorized immigrants who have been accused of certain crimes — signaling that they will try and find spots to work with President-elect Donald Trump while simultaneously trying to block much of his agenda.
The Biden administration’s Title IX rules expanding protections for LGBTQ+ students have been struck down nationwide after a federal judge in Kentucky found that they overstepped the president’s authority.
Inside Washington National Cathedral, the five men who've occupied the Oval Office since 1993 convened for a rare moment together at Jimmy Carter’s state funeral.
President-elect Donald Trump has raised more than $170 million for his upcoming inauguration, a record amount as tech executives and big donors have eagerly written large checks.
President Joe Biden has canceled the final overseas trip of his presidency just hours before he was set to depart for Rome and the Vatican, choosing to remain in Washington to monitor the response to fires raging in California.
Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito spoke with President-elect Donald Trump about a former law clerk the day before Trump went to the high court in a push to delay the sentencing in his New York hush-money case.
Federal Reserve officials at their meeting Dec. 17-18 expected to dial back the pace of interest rate cuts this year in the face of persistently elevated inflation and the threat of widespread tariffs and other potential policy changes.
President Joe Biden is casting doubt on his fitness to serve another four years in a new interview days before he leaves office after one term.
New research shows about a quarter of animals living in rivers, lakes and other freshwater sources are threatened with extinction.
The Justice Department says it will release special counsel Jack Smith’s findings on Donald Trump’s efforts to undo the results of the 2020 presidential election but will keep the rest of the report under wraps for now.
An independent watchdog finds the IRS has improved its overall taxpayer service through Democrats' Inflation Reduction Act but still faces delays processing claims from a coronavirus pandemic-era tax credit program and is slow to resolve certain identity theft cases.
Sen. Elizabeth Warren is pressing Pete Hegseth, President-elect Donald Trump’s pick for defense secretary, to answer additional questions about his past actions and statements before next Tuesday’s confirmation hearing.
Smart devices like baby monitors, fitness trackers and internet-connected appliances could soon carry labels certifying that they meet federal cybersecurity standards.
U.S. job openings rose unexpectedly in November, showing companies are still looking for workers even as the labor market has cooled overall.
Unpaid medical bills will no longer appear on credit reports, where they can block people from mortgages, car loans or small business loans.
The son of a Florida retiree says Saudi Arabia has forced his father to take steps to renounce his American citizenship after jailing him over social media posts critical of the kingdom’s crown prince.
President Joe Biden is signing a proclamation to establish two new national monuments in California in part to honor two tribes.
For the first time, the District of Columbia is hosting three so-called National Special Security Events in a two-week span: Monday’s congressional certification of President-elect Donald Trump’s electoral win, this week’s state funeral for former President Jimmy Carter and then Trump’s inauguration on Jan. 20.
The Venezuelan opposition leader who claims to have defeated President Nicolás Maduro in last year’s presidential election has met with U.S. President Joe Biden.
Former Proud Boys extremist group leader Enrique Tarrio is urging President-elect Donald Trump to pardon him over the Jan. 6 insurrection as Trump’s return to power has thrown into question the future of the Jan. 6 cases.
President Joe Biden is decrying efforts to downplay a mob of Donald Trump supporters overrunning the U.S. Capitol in an attempt to block certification of the election in 2020.
A Washington Post cartoonist says she has decided to quit after editors rejected her sketch of the newspaper's owner and other media executives bowing to President-elect Donald Trump.
Secretary of State Antony Blinken will embark on what is expected to be his final overseas trip in office this weekend, traveling to South Korea, Japan and France.
National security adviser Jake Sullivan will travel to India for a visit focusing on cooperation on strategic technology, including in defense, space and artificial intelligence.
Alcohol is a leading cause of cancer, a risk that should be clearly labeled on drinks Americans consume, U.S. Surgeon General Vivek Murthy proposed on Friday.
